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In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

mother, a goddess, to make pleas to Zeus to ensure that Agamemnon will fail in all battles as long as Achilles is not fighting wit...

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

and the Greek forces suffer mightily without their hero. Later in the narrative, his anger propels him into battle. But, just as a...

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

were arranged on three concentic terraces that focused on the royal residence ("New..." 33). Recent excavation has discovered that...

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...